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Is it possible to deny some specific admin rights, for example the right for admininistrators to change user roles? I want only super users to change the roles of users.

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afaik: no. Administrator permissions are untouchable. (But maybe I am wrong)

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As Administrators is a "normal" Role in the database you can change, in theory, part of the groups rights>
AFAIK "edit roles" is not an available option though.

Also you should understand that this is not a supported use case so the DNN backend could get "confused".
I would not try this in production TBH..

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That's what I thought, hence my question to the experts here.. :)

Is there a event that triggers before a user has been created or updated, to check if a non superuser is trying to save role related stuff? 

EDIT: I found the 'RoleEventHandlers' interface, here I have the RoleJoined and RoleLeft methods (events), here I can detect the role related changes. From the HttpContext I get the actual user who raised the event (so the potential Administrator) and then I can simply throw an exception to notice the admin.

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Please provide some more details about the question raised in your last reply. What, exactly, are you trying to do?

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